/throws hands up in the air
/covers face
/lets out the loudest sigh
I actually don’t know who I’m directly pointing at and referring to as the singular Fucko here, but whoever your guess is probably deserves the title nonetheless.
Former Alabama head coach Nick Saban and Texas Tech board of regents chairman Cody Campbell would co-chair the commission President Donald Trump is interested in forming to examine the long list of issues facing college sports, a source briefed on the plans told The Athletic.
The source said Trump is expected to be “very engaged” with the commission because he sees the current state of college sports as an issue of national importance.
Campbell, who was elected chairman of the Texas Tech board of regents last month, is a former Red Raiders football player and one of the university’s most prominent donors. He is the co-founder and co-executive of Double Eagle Energy Holdings, an upstream oil and gas company based out of Fort Worth, Texas, which operates extensively in the Permian Basin region of West Texas. Campbell is also the co-founder of the Matador Club, an NIL collective that supports Texas Tech athletics, and he recently spearheaded the new $242 million south endzone project at Tech’s Jones AT&T Stadium, which overlooks Cody Campbell Field.
In February, Double Eagle sold a development for $4.1 billion, and in 2021, the company sold a previous development for $6.4 billion. Last month, Double Eagle announced a continued and expanded partnership with EnCap Investments, a prominent private equity company that specializes in the oil and gas industry. Campbell is a board member of Texas Public Policy Foundation and a distinguished fellow at the America First Policy Institute, the latter which has been integral to President Trump’s second-term policy agenda.
The aforementioned Yahoo! post:
Trump’s involvement, though not surprising, is a landmark moment in college athletics history — the country’s most powerful elected leader potentially shaping the future of the industry. Details of the commission are for now mostly being kept private, but the group is expected to feature other college sports stakeholders, prominent businesspeople with deep connections to college football and, perhaps, even another former coach and administrator.
The commission is expected to deeply examine the unwieldy landscape of college sports, including the frequency of player movement in the transfer portal, the unregulated booster compensation paid to athletes, the debate of college athlete employment, preserving the Olympic sport structure, the application of Title IX to school revenue-share payments and, even, conference membership makeup and conference television contracts, those with knowledge of the commission told Yahoo Sports.
Trump’s involvement was expected. Last month, during a trip where more than 100 college sports leaders traveled to DC to lobby on the Hill, they were informed of the White House’s interest and potential action, as reported in this Yahoo Sports story. Last week, Sen. Tommy Tuberville suggested that Trump was contemplating an executive order, news confirmed in reporting by the Wall Street Journal.
Trump could announce a commission through an executive order, as the president did just this week when he established the Religious Liberty Commission.
Now, I don’t really want to use *this story* as a way for me to get my rocks off over how much I hate the shit out of this Trump administration. I’m not going to act like I have to accept any of this term as something that’s deserved, let alone desired. Have you read the news lately? It all sucks. That’s been true basically all of my life, but holy shit this shit sucks!
Anyways, Nick Saban built monster football teams therefore he’s qualified to fix the world alongside the world’s most hated cheeseball of all time. Maybe Deion Sanders will work for the government and coach a football game on the same calendar day too. Why the fuck not? Everything else apparently makes sense when it obviously doesn’t, let’s just make up more ways for people who have lived their entire lives in their own little worlds to lead the Department of Football Amateurism Saves Teams.
Preaching to the choir here, I know, but our handicapped (golf word, since we’re supposed to be sports fans here) President has no idea what the fuck anybody’s talking about. Brother hasn’t done hard time like the rest of us have. He doesn’t know what it’s like to say “NLI” when he means “NIL” and everybody roasting him online saying “HEY DUMBASS” — ok maybe that part he’s gotten once or twice — “NLI IS NATIONAL LETTER OF INTENT, GET IT TOGETHER” at which point he’ll have no idea what you’re talking about and he’ll be so confused by the situation that his brain will just be so fixated on how much he wants an ice-cold Coke from McDonald’s right now because college sports is too confusing for someone like him to focus enough time and attention to.
Leave it to Nick Saban and Bill Belichick to dominate the college football headlines in the sport’s slowest time of year. And there’s a chance neither of them even coaches a game this fall! Everything is awesome!
The Purple Album 